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This year's comp for 5 months over 18 rounds from Friday 22nd February through to Friday 12th July (it starts the week after the UEFA Champions League recommences, after the mid-winter break in February). There's a three-week break this year in June for internationals.

The rules are simple:

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one point for each correct pick. if you forget to pick, the away teams are all yours; but if the wooden spoon score is more, it's the spoon score. for those brave souls amongst us, you can pick a draw (good luck). if you pick a game solo, you score a bonus point (or one of two tipsters).of 7/7 scores a bonus point; ditto for 6/6 when there's a bye. no-one picks a draw, bonus point for the minority who picked the upset win (same as FLC comp). weekly wins vs. wooden spoon differential determine podium finishes; thennumber of weekly wins if differential is the same and then, if countback is identical, bonus pts will be used. is always Thursday midnight FT time, with a period of grace through tokick-off in the first game which is, sometimes, just 35 minutes later. If you lodge your picks late you score zero for any game that's started.

This is the 12th edition of the Super XV tipping comp (for those of us who are wondering, the sport is rugby union).

Last season's comp was won by Howie72, with N-Bomb and wwe84 completing the podium. N-Bomb had won the comp in 2011, while Eraserhead won the 2010 comp. Can N-Bomb make it a hat-trick of podiums?

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Edited by gtho4 (Sat Feb 23 201311:33 PM)

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Welcome to the Super XV Rugby season for 2013! 12 of us lined up this year at the starting blocks, 3 less than last year (missing Eraserhead, DavJack and MrFox) and no new faces...hmmmm....

I don't know much about the game, so will just summarize the weekend by saying Natal Sharks struggled and overcame a second half comeback by the Cheetahs to win their opener, Auckland Blues "shocked" Wellington Hurricanes at the latter's ground, while the league's newcomers, the Eastern Cape Kings (Southern Kings?) pulled off the first "surprise" of the season by beating Western Force.

ozzz2002 jumped out to an early lead, picking 5 of the 7 matches correct, but keeping pace with him is wwe84, who picked 2 bonus points in the very first round! Remember, it was wwe84 who set the early pace for much of last season too, before falling off the perch...

Sypher, who went the whole of last season without a single spoon, started this year with one. As many as seven spoons were freely distributed all over the place, as we start the season with a 50% success rate, one of the poorest in recent times

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Another strange week here in our comp with everybody scoring either a HoF or a spoon! wwe84 picked the Blues to win against the Crusaders and earns himself a 3rd bonus point in two rounds. He is one ahead of ozzz2002 now at the top.

illiniman14 was the only one who went against the Reds, otherwise he might well have earned himself a HoF and taken sole possession of number 3 spot in the ladder...

The Stormers lost for the second time in a row, while the Blues won for a second time...hmmm....it's still early days in the comp...

DavJack makes a return to the comp after giving us all a 2 week headstart and slots into the middle of the table...

illiniman14 again went against the general trend of picks and it paid off this week. He picked the card except the one match which none of us managed to get. A sole pick adds to his tally and he now joins wwe84 at the top.

LeoDaVinci and ozzz2002 pick the week's spoons.

Defending champions Waikato Chiefs lost to the Stormers, who thus managed their first win. The Sharks, Brumbies and the Bulls remain the only unbeaten teams after 3 rounds!

Edited by srini701 (Sun Mar 10 201310:52 PM)

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Would have been a good week to go default as five away teams won this round...srini701 sure wishes he did, as he got just one win this round for his 3rd spoon in 4 weeks

Davjack picked his first HoF, while LeodaVinci picked this round's sole bonus point for picking Western Australia Force to win away at Queensland Reds...They did, for their first ever win at Brisbane. The Cheetahs also won away against the Waratahs, a result none of us picked here...

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ozzz2002 became the first person to pick a perfect round this season, earning himself a bonus point for his effort and with that feat, he's back in joint lead with wwe84.

wwe84 would have had a perfect round too, had he not gone ahead and tipped the Rebels to win against the Sharks! As it is, the Sharks thrashed the daylights out of the Rebels in one of the most lop-sided scores I have ever seen in this comp (not that I know anything at all). LeoDaVinci and George95 would have had perfect rounds too, had they not failed in one match each...

srini701 continues his struggle to come to terms this season, and he picks up his 4th spoon in five rounds

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The Melbourne Rebels completed their second 23-30 win in 2013 over the Western Force, the Orange Free State Cheetahs ended a seven match losing streak against the Western Stormers, and also won five matches in a row for the very first time since they joined the Super rugby in 1996, while the ACT Brumbies allowed the Eastern Cape Kings to snatch a late draw, the first this season...

srini701 and George95 both won their first HoFs for the season while a clutch of players picked up spoons this round, allowing us to complete that column in the scoresheet.

The Stormers stayed alive in this year's comp with a hard fought win over the Sharks, Western Australia Force scored a rare home victory by upsetting Canterbury Crusaders, Queensland Reds trumped the defending Champs Waikato Chiefs, while the Blues, Brumbies and Bulls all scored important wins this round.

BxBarracuda completed a very impressive weekend for himself in comps being organized by srini701 (see IPL 2013 results)...He not only scored his first HoF this round, but also scored 2 bonus points for sole wins and climbed a few rungs up the ladder

wwe84 continued to slide and picked up his second spoon in a row this round.

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A good weekend for teams from New Zealand this round, as except Wellington Hurricanes all others won, including the Auckland Blues who pulled off a close win over the Stormers and the Canterbury Crusaders who upset the Brumbies.

Nobody picked the draw between the Force and the Reds, but Davjack picks a bonus point for picking the Force to win the match.

Howie72 had a good round there and wins a HoF while wwe84 wins his fifth spoon in a row....what's the record for consecutive spoons in any FT comp here, anyway??

Edited by gtho4 (Sun May 05 201305:05 PM)

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while wwe84 wins his fifth spoon in a row....what's the record for consecutive spoons in any FT comp here, anyway??

Nine by ozzz2002 in the college football comp, and Copago comes in second at seven. This feat will be recognized in the FT Hall of Fame as five pulls you on that list, however, if it continues, it won't be added until wwe84 does not get a Spoon.

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